Lara Stone wins damages from Playboy over naked pictures

Lara Stone has reportedly won ‘significant’ damages from French Playboy after the magazine published unauthorised photos of her.

The Dutch supermodel, who is married to comedian David Walliams , is said to be ‘pleased’ with the result and will donate the cash to Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

Lara Stone has won damages from French Playboy (PA)

In a statement released by her law firm Schillings, the fashion model said: ‘No woman wants photos of them to be published in Playboy without permission.

‘I’m very pleased to have won the case, although of course I would rather not have had to take legal action at all.’

In addition to paying damages, Playboy will have to issue a statement confirming that a court found it had infringed Stone’s image rights, which will have to be published in a prominent place in the next edition of the magazine.

The topless photos of Lara appeared in the June issue of French Playboy, prompting her to start legal action against both the magazine and the photographer Greg Lotus.

At the time, the 26-year-old said that she would never have chosen to appear in Playboy and as such felt she had ‘no option’ but to ‘take steps to protect my reputation’.

Lara’s latest modelling campaign, for Calvin Klein Jeans, has been banned in Australia due to its risque nature.

The billboards showed the supermodel posing seductively with three male models and according to the Advertising Standards Bureau were ‘suggestive of violence and rape’.